On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 11:05:32 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote: > Indeed. It's still better than > > "This is %s a fruit" % (x in x_list and "" or "not") > > The bug is intentional; the fix is of course > > "This is %s a fruit" % (x in x_list and "most likely" or "probably not") > > ;)
Thanks I wondered what/why you were bringing in this clunky, error-prone pre-conditional meme... And came across https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056510.html | I propose that in Py3.0, the "and" and "or" operators be simplified to | always return a Boolean value instead of returning the last evaluated | argument. Good to know that Raymond Hettinger disagrees with Guido on the messed-up, ½-class status of bools in python -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
